North Carolina lab for pirate ship artifacts holds open house

North Carolina lab for pirate ship artifacts holds open house GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) — The Greenville laboratory that conserves the artifacts from Blackbeard’s flagship held an open house, Saturday, Nov. 15, at the Queen Anne’s Revenge Conservation Laboratory.

Artifacts on view from the flagship, Queen Anne’s Revenge, included cannons, gold dust, navigational instruments. Conservators and archaeologists explained the use of each prized object.

Included among the cannons is the one just raised in October.

The lab is located on East Carolina University’s West Research Campus, about 10 miles west of the main campus.

The Queen Anne’s Revenge ran aground in Beaufort in June 1718 and was discovered in November 1996.